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Updated: May 31, 2025
On the next visit of the higgler Dale was lying in wait for him. "Come inside, please. I'd like a few words with you, Mr. Druitt;" and the higgler was led through the kitchen, and up the three steps into the adjacent room. Here, as soon as the door had been shut, Mr. and Mrs. Dale both tackled him.
You've courted her." The higgler distinctly preened himself, and smiled archly. "Ah, there's a language of the eyes, which speaks perhaps when the lips are sealed." Mavis was angry and disgusted. "You, a married man!" Dale, outraged too, spoke with increasing sternness. "You don't deny you've got a wife?" The higgler answered very gravely. "Mr. Dale, that's my misfortune, not my fault.
Thoresby, who was in the habit of travelling between Leeds and the capital, has recorded, in his Diary, such a series of perils and disasters as might suffice for a journey to the Frozen Ocean or to the Desert of Sahara. On one occasion he learned that the floods were out between Ware and London, that passengers had to swim for their lives, and that a higgler had perished in the attempt to cross.
But my wife isn't going to last forever, and the day she's gone that is, the day after I've buried her decently I shall come here to Mary Parsons and say 'Mary' mind you, I've never called her Mary yet I shall say, 'Mary, my lips are unsealed, and I ask you to be my true and lawful second wife." They could make nothing of the higgler.
Being disappointed in his hopes of profit, he shuffled out of the concern as meanly as any higgler could have done who had found himself in a profitless business with a disreputable partner.
Moulsey at the shop, when she wanted to buy those cottages in Potter's Row and there was Sam Field the higgler both of them would have borrowed from him if Saunders hadn't cooled them off. Saunders said it was a Jew's interest he was asking because there was security but he wasn't going to accept a farthing less than his shilling a pound for three months not he! So they might take it or leave it.
Druitt, the higgler, had become rare; only an occasional bit of bacon, or once in a way a couple of rabbits, a hare, a doubtfully obtained pheasant, could ever be required from him; so that the greater part of his frequent visits were admittedly paid to the servant and not to the mistress. But he proved an unconscionably slow courtier.
'I expect he'll turn squatter some day and be made a magistrate. 'Like enough, says Jim. 'More than one we could pick began lower down than him, and sits on the Bench and gives coves like us a turn when we're brought up before 'em. Fancy old George sayin', "Is anything known, constable, of this prisoner's anterseedents?" as I heard old Higgler say one day at Bargo.
This meant a marriage feast for Mary; nor would the higgler permit of the least delay in its preparation. He was ardent to taste the felicity that had been so long postponed, and refused to listen to any appeals that might be addressed to his sense of propriety, the respect due to the departed, and so forth.
Nature, indeed, could not have supported itself thus long under much labour; but as I had nothing to do but only keep the middle stream, I began to be as used to guide myself in it with my eyes almost closed, and my senses retired, as a higgler is to drive his cart to market in his sleep.
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